SOLUTION: Consumer Application: Televisions and computer screens are usually advertised based on the length of their diagonals. If the height of a computer screen is 11in. and the width is 1

Question 214514: Consumer Application: Televisions and computer screens are usually advertised based on the length of their diagonals. If the height of a computer screen is 11in. and the width is 14in., What is the length of the diagonal? Round to the nearest inch.
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Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c^2+a^2+b^2
c^2=11^2+14^2
c^2=121+196
c^2=317
c=18 in
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Presuming the screen is a rectangle and therefore has right angle corners, Pythagoras says:

You can run a calculator as well as I can.

John

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